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Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 Wine Tasting

I found this fascinating quote today: There is a vast array of wildlife at Dollarhide. Ducks, geese, egrets, cranes, owls, bees, jackrabbits, foxes and a bald eagle family can be found frequenting one of the seven lakes on the property which teem with large mouth bass. Our rattlesnake population helps keep the burrowing pest population from [...]

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Wine Coolers 101

Date: Fri, Aug 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

Friends, please welcome Shireen Qudosi as today’s guest author on Winehiker Witiculture. Shireen’s 5-year career as a brand identity executive has allowed her to pair her expertise in product research with her interest in fine wines. If one of your hobbies is collecting exotic or expensive wines, then the next step on the path in your [...]

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Links for 2009-08-04 [del.icio.us]

Date: Wed, Aug 5, 2009 Wine Tasting

• A difficult year, a Wine Bloggers Conference and my potential role in the future of the wine country experience
• The 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference: a foundation for raising the collective spirit

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The 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference: a foundation for raising the collective spirit

Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 Wine Tasting

Now that it’s been a few gradually less-hazy days since the 2009 Wine Bloggers Conference, it’s time for me to distill the jumble of moments I encountered while in attendance. On the whole, aside from some rather frustrating wireless bandwidth issues while in session at Santa Rosa’s Flamingo Hotel, I’d say the conference was a [...]

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A difficult year, a Wine Bloggers Conference and my potential role in the future of the wine country experience

Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

As this week approaches its climax, I face a very memorable and paroxysm-inducing experience for my liver at the 2nd Annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa, California. And yet before I show up Friday morning, I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to those who have made it [...]

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Links for 2009-05-22 [del.icio.us]

Date: Sat, May 23, 2009 Wine Tasting

• Specialized SX Trail with Darren Berrecloth
  Amazing mountain bike stunt work.
• Who is Mark Twain? on Vimeo
  John Lithgow reads Mark Twain, complete with "live" drawings.
• hotel crazyness...
  Talented (and apparently bored) flutist, Greg Pattillo, brings on the funk.
• The Waterfalls of Uvas Canyon
  My first video, shot in March 2009, features three waterfalls at Uvas Canyon County Park. Kidnap your mom and go there!
• The Waterfalls of Uvas Canyon: a video

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The Waterfalls of Uvas Canyon: a video

Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

Back in mid-March, on a dry day after a bout of Spring rains, I kidnapped my mom and drove her down into the southern part of my native Santa Clara County to a place she’d never been before. Tucked up into the eastern slopes of the southern Santa Cruz Mountain range, Uvas Canyon is a [...]

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Links for 2009-05-20 [del.icio.us]

Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

• What does double occupancy mean?

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Links for 2009-05-06 [del.icio.us]

Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 Wine Tasting

• Wine review: Macari Vineyards 2007 Estate Chardonnay
  The 2007 Macari Vineyards Estate Chardonnay is refreshing, delicious, affordable, and High QPR. Read on, and pour away!

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Wine review: Macari Vineyards 2007 Estate Chardonnay

Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 Wine Tasting

I’m no country boy. But more often than not, I find myself escaping to the country - the wild country - that is Nature’s backyard. For it is true that I love my local mountains. Just seeing them ringing the valley where I live, much less walking their trails, is good for my soul. Escaping to [...]

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Half Dome Day Hike, June 4-6

Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 Wine Tasting

I have two spots open for a day hike up Half Dome that a friend of mine is ramrodding. The hike will be very strenuous and will include nearly a mile of elevation gain over 16 miles of hiking; we’re going to be attacking at dawn. We have a campsite at Hodgdon Meadows Thursday night June [...]

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Wild Crush 2009 honors 37 years of environmental education

Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2009 Wine Tasting

FROM THE COMMITTEE FOR GREEN FOOTHILLS comes news of an event scheduled for this Saturday. If you love wine, care about your local environment, and are looking for something fun and worthwhile to do on the peninsula tomorrow night, then Environmental Volunteers (EV) invites you to Wild Crush 2009. The annual gala honors thirty-seven years of [...]

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Links for 2009-04-22 [del.icio.us]

Date: Thu, Apr 23, 2009 Wine Tasting

• What’s the happiest you’ve ever been? » winehiker witiculture

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Trip report: Sunol Regional Wilderness

Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2009 Wine Tasting

I love to return to Sunol Regional Wilderness every Spring. Sometimes my timing is right and I’ll be greeted by welcome displays of orange California poppies and purple lupines. But even when I’ve arrived a week or two early and the wildflowers haven’t yet wandered onto Nature’s stage, I still find Sunol’s vast expanse of [...]

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